On the Rankin-Selberg integral of Kohnen and Skoruppa

Abstract

The Rankin-Selberg integral of Kohnen and Skoruppa produces the Spin $L$-function for holomorphic Siegel modular forms of genus two. In this paper, we reinterpret and extend their integral to apply to arbitrary cuspidal automorphic representations of $\mathrm{PGSp}_4$. We show that the integral is related to a non-unique model and analyze it using the approach of Piatetski-Shapiro and Rallis.